Google engineer loves working with Microsoft engineers: 'We share the same soul'

When Microsoft launched a bunch of new software programming
products
in an event in New York, it included an unusual video in
the keynote speech: a group of Google engineers saying how much
they loved working with Microsoft.

One Google engineer basically called out his Microsoft
counterparts as soul-mates, saying (emphasis ours):

"It really became apparent that we share the same
soul and we’ve been able to work really well together
because of that," said Brad Green, Google's director of
engineering for a project called Angular.

He's talking about a project that Google and Microsoft actually
co-developed together called Angular — a free and open
source tool for writing web apps in a popular language called
JavaScript.

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"A lot of people are surprised when they hear we’ve built Angular
with Microsoft," Jules Kremer, Angular’s technical program
manager says in the video.

When Google decided to do the Javascript-improvement project it
looked around and discovered Typescript, programming
language that also improves Javascript.

So Green contacted Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders
Hejlsberg, the guy in charge of Typescript, and found his
soul-mate and the software dev world got Angular out of the deal.

Google and Microsoft's epic rivalry isn't exactly dead yet. But
since Satya Nadella took over as Microsoft CEO, he's making
friends with all of the company's classic rivals, including, it
seems, with Google. Microsoft is even willing to show off its
former rivals publicly, in the middle of a keynote speech.